"The only intention was to amuse viewers who would perceive the advertisement as a witty parody."

"KFC does not use a real-life colonel but an animated character called the colonel and therefore the use of the character was not the same. The use of the character was to amuse the consumer. There could not have been any confusion," Chicken Licken representatives said at a hearing in September.

The real Colonel could not be reached for comments as he didn't answer his seance calls.